Since the Spring Festival Gala, the entire film industry can basically be described in four words - gambling films!

From "God of Gamblers" to "The Saint of Gambling", Meng Chao created the trend of gambling films, and set up two shooting methods for gambling films, making him seem to be the founder of the founding sect.

And the domestic box office of these two pioneering works is all above 400 million, so many filmmakers who usually like to follow the trend are naturally jealous.

For this reason, since the Spring Festival Gala in 1988, basically the entire film market has been gambling films.

For example, "The King of Gamblers", "Gambling Honor", and "Gambling Demon", which even follow the trend into two words of gambling films, and there are also gambling films such as "Gambling Supreme", "Gambling King Competition", and "The Winner is King".

It can be said that many viewers don't know which one to watch for a while, and there is a statistic that among the world's major casinos, the Chinese people have the heaviest gambling nature.

It can be said that you don't want to go if you win, and you don't want to go if you lose, so many casinos know that they are Chinese when they see Asians who have gambled all day long without guessing.

For this reason, gambling films are very popular in China, and in April, a movie was released before "The Gambler", which really made Meng Chao and Wang Jingjing a little jealous.

This movie is called "Gambler", and the starring actors in it are basically contracted actors who spend money on Genesis Film Company, such as Zheng Yulin, Wu Mengda, Anita Mui and Zhong Zhentao, and the director of this movie is Yuan Kui!

Who is Yuan Kui?

is one of the Seven Little Blessings, the brothers of Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao, who are very skilled, especially good at action design, Meng Chao's "Gambling Saint" is actually Yuan Kui's work in the parallel world.

In the parallel world, after Yuan Kui saw Wang Jing filming "God of Gamblers", he followed the trend and filmed a "Saint of Gambling", which was a box office hit and became popular with Zhou Xingchi.

And now "The Saint of Gambling" was filmed by Meng Chao in advance, and Zhou Xingchi has also become a long-term actor under Meng Chao's Genesis Film Company. So Yuan Kui could only use his brains to think of a way, and finally with the investment of Golden Harvest Film Company, he decided to make a gambling film with women as the main role - "Gambling Tyrant".

As for why even Wang Jing and Meng Chao are a little afraid of the movie "Gambler"?

The main reason is that Wang Jing also said in the parallel world that he thinks that the person who is best at making gambling movies is other than himself. It's Yuan Kui.

Yuan Kui's "Gambling Tyrant" can be said to be completely implemented in the kind of nonsensical and funny in "The Saint of Gambling", and the female actors Anita Mui and Zheng Yulin are the main characters, and this movie balances the scenes of martial arts and gambling very well, coupled with his own control of the rhythm of the movie, the director zhì This "Gambling Tyrant" is very interesting.

In the final ending of the movie. Zheng Yulin's gambling bully was unsuccessful, and as a result, he framed the opponent Qin Pei's Hong Guang out of the old man, and finally used her trick of changing the cards to cheat money successfully made the audience believe that Hong Guang was out of the old man, and finally won the gamble!

This ingenious ending can be said to have impressed Meng Chao very deeply, which also proves that Director Yuan Kui is not a director who only blindly follows the trend, but knows how to shoot different plots and jokes in the same theme, which is very rare.

"Gambler" held its premiere on April 2, and Wang Jing and Meng Chao were invited.

Director Yuan Kui welcomed the two very politely: "Thank you so much for attending, you are all seniors in making gambling films, and my film is purely a Handan toddler." Let you see the smile! ”

"Director Yuan Kui, don't say that, I think your movie is very interesting, a gambling film based on the theme of the heroine, we really didn't expect it!" Meng Chao replied very humbly.

Wang Jing smiled and said: "Brother Dan, our new film "The Gambler" will be released next week!" Then we will have to fight Golden Harvest Film Company again! ”

Yuan Kui continued to say politely: "Then you have to be merciful." ”

Wang Jing and Meng Chao both admired Yuan Kui very much, so the two filmmakers attended the premiere of "Gambler", and they didn't feel that there was anything to be angry about each other's following their own movies.

Because this is the case in the film industry, when no one shoots many themes, no one cares, and when someone shoots it and sells it at the box office, naturally everyone will follow suit. This is understandable, after all, the money in this world cannot be earned by one person.

The premiere of "The Gambler" was also very lively, and when the movie was finally screened, there was constant laughter. Countless audiences and film critics watched it with relish.

The next day, several entertainment media also reported on the movie "Gambler", and the evaluation was quite good, and they all thought that "Gambler" was taking the nonsensical route, but it was not much worse than "Gambling Saint", which can be said to be the highest quality among all the gambling films that follow the trend.

……

April 8, 1988.

"The Gambler" officially held its premiere.

At the scene, many filmmakers who had followed the trend of "God of Gamblers" and "The Saint of Gambling" were present to congratulate and support, after all, Meng Chao created the prosperity of gambling films. Let them all be filmmakers who can follow the trend and make money, so everyone is extremely grateful to Meng Chao.

Although gambling movies have been flooded recently, "The Gambler" is still the most anticipated gambling film.

One of the biggest reasons is that this movie is produced by Genesis Films, and everyone knows that Genesis Films will not make bad movies!

Moreover, the story of the movie "The Gambler" is inherited from "God of Gamblers" and "The Saint of Gambling".

In this "Gambler", Zhou Xingchi will continue to appear as the gambling saint Zuo Songxing, and has the same role as the gambler Chen Xiaodao played by Liu Dehua, it can be said that he is also tied for the male lead, this is a gambling film with two protagonists, which has not yet appeared in the gambling film genre.

In addition, the role of gambler Chen Xiaodao is inherited from the role in "God of Gamblers", and at the end of "God of Gamblers", Gao Jin, the God of Gamblers, said that he would take Chen Xiaodao to Las Vegas and take him as an apprentice.

After all, compared with Chow Yun-fat and Chow Xingchi, Liu Dehua's number of fans in China is also terrifying!

Moreover, this movie also has stars such as Wu Mengda, Meng Chao, Zhong Chuhong, and Shan Liwen as supporting roles, which can be described as star-studded, so many audiences are still looking forward to the release of "The Gambler".

For this reason, the atmosphere of the premiere is also a little more lively than the previous few days of "Gambler", basically the filmmakers with heads and faces are present to support, plus there are many professional film critics and reporters who are also present to support, of course, there are also lovely audiences who are willing to buy high-priced premiere tickets to enter! (To be continued.) )